Kris Jenner Has Harsh Words for Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Cover

It’s been four months since Caitlyn Jenner made her public debut on the cover of Vanity Fair, but only now are we seeing exactly how the Kardashian family coped with the news. In last night’s episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, both Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian had particularly strong reactions to Buzz Bissinger’s cover story. “We had this great life and not one nice word,” Kris said to Kim over the phone in the episode. “It just sums up that I’m this piece of shit person who was mean.”

In the cover story from Vanity Fair’s June issue, Kris and Caitlyn disagreed on how much she knew about her husband’s gender identity while they were married, and Caitlyn’s son Burt claimed that Kris’s “you aren’t part of this” attitude, when Keeping Up with the Kardashians began in 2007, distanced Jenner’s four eldest children from the rest of the family. Caitlyn also gave this reason for the end of her marriage with Kris: “Twenty percent was gender and 80 percent was the way I was treated.”

In last night’s Kardashians episode both Kim and Khloé were upset with the article; “We’re just not a family who goes and bashes the other one publicly,” Khloé said. “If we have an issue with someone, we’ll go and address it to their face.” In the episode she says she won’t attend the ESPY Awards, where Caitlyn was presented with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, but she did wind up attending after all.

Later Kim went to confront Caitlyn about the article: “You said, ‘Kris mistreated me.’ It sounded like she beat the shit out of you. You got the fame, but you’re losing your family. It’s your time, but you don’t have to bash us on your way up.”

Given that the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan was there to support Caitlyn at the ESPYs, and that Kris eventually did meet Caitlyn in person during an episode of I Am Cait, the tensions among the family have likely dissipated since this episode was filmed in June. And if they haven’t, we’ll have plenty of chances to hear about it—both I Am Cait and Keeping Up with the Kardashians are set to return for new seasons next year.

Caitlyn in her bedroom. Brandon Jenner says he was a little taken aback
when he met Caitlyn for the first time and she pulled up her top to reveal her new breasts. “Whoa, I’m still your son,” he said.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“That was a good day,” she says of winning gold, in 1976. “But the last couple of days”—being photographed as Caitlyn by Leibovitz—“were better.”

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

In the 80s, Jenner joked about going to Denmark and coming back to his four young children as Aunt Heather.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

Caitlyn in her 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The $180,000 car was a gift from Jenner’s wife Kris.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“Underneath my suit I have a bra and panty hose … thinking to myself,
They know nothing about me,” Jenner remembers.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“There’s so much more to me than those 48 hours in the stadium, and I can’t talk about it,” Caitlyn says, thinking back. “It was frustrating.”

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

Caitlyn Jenner, photographed in her Malibu home. “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it,
I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life,’ ” she says.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

Caitlyn in her bedroom. Brandon Jenner says he was a little taken aback
when he met Caitlyn for the first time and she pulled up her top to reveal her new breasts. “Whoa, I’m still your son,” he said.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“That was a good day,” she says of winning gold, in 1976. “But the last couple of days”—being photographed as Caitlyn by Leibovitz—“were better.”

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

In the 80s, Jenner joked about going to Denmark and coming back to his four young children as Aunt Heather.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

Caitlyn in her 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The $180,000 car was a gift from Jenner’s wife Kris.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“Underneath my suit I have a bra and panty hose … thinking to myself,
They know nothing about me,” Jenner remembers.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

“There’s so much more to me than those 48 hours in the stadium, and I can’t talk about it,” Caitlyn says, thinking back. “It was frustrating.”

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Styled by Jessica Diehl.

Caitlyn Jenner, photographed in her Malibu home. “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it,
I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life,’ ” she says.